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Wedding
party blaze in Saudi Arabia kills 25
Thursday November 01, 2012 11:13:46 AM,
Agencies
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Riyadh: Twenty-five
people, among them women and children, have died in Saudi Arabia
after a huge fire broke out at a wedding party early on Wednesday.
The wedding was held in "Ain Badr" village, in Abqaiq, 60
kilometeres southwest of the Dhahran-Dammam-Khobar metropolitan
area. The fire, caused by a short circuit, engulfed the house
where the party was on, an official said.
Thirty injured were shifted to hospitals, Xinhua reported
Wednesday.
The disaster occurred when a high voltage power line fell down and
touched the metal door of the house where the wedding was being
held, according to sources from the Saudi Civil Defense, Al
Arabiya reported.
In line with traditions in the Gulf, wedding celebrations in Saudi
Arabia are segregated.
Most of the casualties were women, and they died as they attempted
to escape through the electrified metal door, the Civil Defense
sources told Al Arabiya.
Many of the victims were electrocuted as they attempted to leave
the building, the Saudi-based news website Sabq reported.
A photograph of the aftermath of the accident, published on local
newspapers' websites showed a large courtyard strewn with fallen
chairs and a pole in the middle supporting cables carrying
lightbulbs.
Eastern Province governor Prince Mohammed bin Fahd ordered an
investigation into the incident, the official Saudi Press Agency
reported.
In July 1999, 76 people died in a similar incident in Eastern
Province.
In 2009, a wedding tent fire caused the death 57 women and
children in Kuwait. The fire was started allegedly by a
23-year-old woman who wanted to ruin the marriage of her husband
with a second wife.
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